{"id":199684,"date":"2024-05-04T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=199684"},"modified":"2024-05-04T21:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T02:47:42","slug":"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.15.19\u202fPM-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.15.19\u202fPM-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.15.19\u202fPM-400x265.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.15.19\u202fPM-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.15.19\u202fPM-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.15.19\u202fPM-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.15.19\u202fPM.jpg 1838w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">We drape our wars in a thin layer of respectability, but we are still just bloodthirsty animals at heart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time:  <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">11<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>War is the most uncivilized of human pursuits. If you think about it, it is mind-boggling we\u2019re still doing it. One nation-state gets cross with another, and the next thing you know we are slaughtering each other\u2019s young folks wholesale. It seems there\u2019s not such a grand gulf between us and the beasts of the fields after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-martial-philosophy\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">Martial Philosophy<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-setting-the-stage-for-baralong\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">Setting the Stage For Baralong<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-u-boat-scourge\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">The U-boat Scourge<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-rules-change\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">The Rules Change<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-personalities-in-the-baralong-incident\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">Personalities In the Baralong Incident<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-battle-is-joined\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">Battle is Joined<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-raw-firepower-trumps-absolutely-everything\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">Raw Firepower Trumps Absolutely Everything<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-a-dark-turn\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">A Dark Turn<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-it-gets-worse-for-the-germans\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">It Gets Worse For The Germans<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-damage-control-on-the-baralong\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" data-level=\"2\">Damage Control On the Baralong<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We couch the practice underneath a veneer of respectability. Our finest strategists earn advanced degrees in the prosecution of modern war, and our military-industrial complex drives technical innovation on an unrivaled scale. And yet at its heart, the true mission of the military is to simply rip the very life out of other human beings who would, in general, really sooner not be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-martial-philosophy\">Martial Philosophy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.22.10\u202fPM-1024x581.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.22.10\u202fPM-1024x581.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.22.10\u202fPM-400x227.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.22.10\u202fPM-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.22.10\u202fPM-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.22.10\u202fPM-1536x871.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.22.10\u202fPM.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Don&#8217;t expect these maniacs to show a great deal of restraint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If I\u2019m coming across as a pacifist, I\u2019m not. The world is a dangerous place, and our adversaries are frankly insane. Whether it is ISIS, Hamas, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, or the Russians you happen to see over your rifle sights, you\u2019d best be metaphorically ready to pull that trigger. Rest assured were the roles reversed those guys would not be particularly morally encumbered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is, however, essentially impossible to excise emotion from that equation. No matter how civilized we claim to be, the very act of war is an innately barbaric unrestrained thing. It is for this reason I am philosophically opposed to embedded reporters in war zones. War is ugly, horrifying, and bad. Our young studs have enough on their minds without having to fret about their actions being broadcast into living rooms across America. If it is important enough to go to war I think we should just get out of the way and let our warriors take care of business. Turns out I\u2019m not the first guy to feel that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-setting-the-stage-for-baralong\">Setting the Stage For Baralong<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>World War 1 was a transformational event in human history. This vast conflict was the planet\u2019s rude introduction to combat on a truly industrial scale. The learning curve was steep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.16.49\u202fPM-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.16.49\u202fPM-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.16.49\u202fPM-386x300.jpg 386w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.16.49\u202fPM-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.16.49\u202fPM-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.16.49\u202fPM-1536x1192.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.16.49\u202fPM.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is a group of Washington DC society folks who came out for a spirited afternoon watching the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously it was a fairly straightforward thing to fractionate war into combatants and everyone else. On 21 July 1861, droves of civilians showed up with food to spectate during the First Battle of Bull Run. They arrived expecting a gay holiday, initially referring to the ominously pending event as the \u201cPicnic Battle.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The end result was more than 4,000 killed and wounded and an irretrievable loss of innocence for all involved. Come World War 1, all pretense of civility was gone. Technology had rendered chivalry and restraint obsolete.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-u-boat-scourge\">The U-boat Scourge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In no place was this lamentable reality more starkly manifest than in the burgeoning art of submarine warfare. The concept of the combat submarine was brand spanking new, and the Kaiser\u2019s Navy led the technological charge. Now a warship could approach a target submerged and strike from a position of stealthy advantage. It also became increasingly difficult to differentiate between men of war and transport ships fat with civilians. Sometimes those transport vessels had their staterooms packed with civilians and their holds full of war materiel. The end result was the perfect recipe for tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.07\u202fPM-1024x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.07\u202fPM-1024x523.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.07\u202fPM-400x204.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.07\u202fPM-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.07\u202fPM-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.07\u202fPM-1536x785.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.07\u202fPM.jpg 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The sinking of the Lusitania was World War 1&#8217;s Pearl Harbor moment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That tragedy struck in May of 1915 with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by U-20, a German U-boat. The Lusitania was a passenger liner on its 202d transit across the Atlantic carrying some 1,962 passengers and crew. U-20 centerpunched the fast liner with a single torpedo just beneath the wheelhouse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The massive ship sank eighteen minutes later, carrying 1,199 souls to the bottom with her. That number included a great many British women and children as well as 123 Americans. Once word of this attack made the rounds, the sailors of the Royal Navy were disinclined to show much mercy to German U-boat men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-rules-change\">The Rules Change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.45\u202fPM-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.45\u202fPM-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.45\u202fPM-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.45\u202fPM-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.45\u202fPM-768x1124.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.14.45\u202fPM.jpg 884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Propagandists rightly weaponized the Germans&#8217; lack of moral restraint to stir up patriotic fervor and righteous anger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This bloodlust was fairly institutionalized. In the aftermath of the Lusitania sinking, two officers of the Admiralty\u2019s Secret Service branch approached Lieutenant Commander Godfrey Herbert, skipper of the British Q-ship HMS Baralong, saying, \u201cThis&nbsp;<em>Lusitania<\/em>&nbsp;business is shocking. Unofficially, we are telling you&#8230;take no prisoners from U-boats.\u201d Herbert took his new directive quite literally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point in the war, the Q-ship was England\u2019s best weapon against U-boat attacks. These heavily armed merchant vessels masqueraded as helpless transports to lure U-boats in close before exposing hidden guns and sending many a submarine to the bottom. Torpedo technology was still in its infancy, so much of a U-boat\u2019s firepower came from its deck guns. U-boats would often approach a target ship via stealth and then surface to prosecute the attack. Q-boats were designed to feed that right back to the Kaiserliche Marine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-personalities-in-the-baralong-incident\">Personalities In the Baralong Incident<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"706\" height=\"852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.35\u202fPM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.35\u202fPM.jpg 706w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.35\u202fPM-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.35\u202fPM-124x150.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Godfrey Herbert would have made a splendid old-school corsair commander.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LCDR Herbert was not your typical Royal Navy ship\u2019s Captain. He purportedly encouraged his men to terrorize the countryside in drunken binges while on shore leave. In one sordid incident in Dartmouth, several of his sailors destroyed a local pub and were arrested. Herbert paid their bail personally and then returned to sea as soon as everyone was accounted for. He also inexplicably insisted on his crew calling him \u201cCaptain William McBride\u201d to his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August of 1915, a German U-boat sank the liner SS Arabic while within 20 miles of the Baralong\u2019s patrol area. The Baralong made haste to the site but failed to recover any survivors. This left Herbert\u2019s crew in a proper state. Meanwhile, about seventy miles away, the German U-boat U-27 had intercepted the British steamer Nicosian.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-battle-is-joined\">Battle is Joined<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.33\u202fPM-685x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.33\u202fPM-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.33\u202fPM-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.33\u202fPM-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.33\u202fPM.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">German Kapitanleutnant Bernd Wegener presided over the destruction of both his ship and his crew.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The skipper of U-27, Kapitanleutnant Bernd Wegener, led a six-man boarding party to search the Nicosian. They discovered war materiel and 250 American mules making the transit over to assist with the war effort. As a result, Wegener ordered the crew off the Nicosian and prepared to sink her with his deck guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HMS Baralong arrived at the site of this little nautical dustup intentionally flying an American flag. Under the false guise of neutrality, the Baralong maneuvered within 600 yards of the U-boat, claiming their mission was to rescue survivors. U-27 held fire and assumed a course parallel to the stricken Nicosian.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.05\u202fPM-854x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.05\u202fPM-854x1024.jpg 854w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.05\u202fPM-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.05\u202fPM-125x150.jpg 125w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.05\u202fPM-768x921.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.08.05\u202fPM.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">LCDR Herbert was an unscrupulous brigand who managed his warship beautifully. He approached the scene of the battle under a flag of truce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Baralong adopted an identical course on the opposite side of the doomed British ship. Once the Nicosian effectively masked the Baralong, Herbert exposed his guns and prepared for surface action. As soon as she cleared the Nicosian, the Baralong opened up with everything she had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-raw-firepower-trumps-absolutely-everything\">Raw Firepower Trumps Absolutely Everything<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.12.18\u202fPM-776x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.12.18\u202fPM-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.12.18\u202fPM-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.12.18\u202fPM-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.12.18\u202fPM-768x1014.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.12.18\u202fPM.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">These big fast-firing 3-inch guns were devastating against lightly-armored targets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Baralong was equipped with three big 12-pounder guns. These quick-firing 76mm cannon could fire a blistering 15 rounds per minute. Their withering fusillade overwhelmed the wallowing U-boat in short order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the engagement was decided, Herbert called for a cease-fire. However, his crew ignored the order, incensed as they were over the recent loss of civilian life to the cowardly U-boats. The Baralong got off 34 rounds for the U-boat\u2019s one. Now thoroughly ventilated, U-27 rolled over and began to sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up until this point, things were sort-of unfolding according to accepted convention, the confusion over the spurious American ensign notwithstanding. However, the Nicosian crew was goading the British sailors from their lifeboats, shouting, \u201cIf any of those bastard\u00a0Huns come up, lads, hit &#8217;em with an oar!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-dark-turn\">A Dark Turn <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"956\" height=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.22\u202fPM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.22\u202fPM.jpg 956w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.22\u202fPM-379x300.jpg 379w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.22\u202fPM-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.10.22\u202fPM-768x607.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Only those German sailors near the surface made it out of the U-boat before she sank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Twelve German sailors escaped the stricken U-boat before it slipped under. These were the deck gun crews and those men on duty in the conning tower. They dove into the water and swam for the Nicosian, now occupied solely by the German boarding party. Herbert later claimed at an inquiry that he feared the Germans would scuttle the defenseless civilian vessel. As a result, he ordered his men to gun down the U-boat survivors with small arms. They did so willingly, killing every last one of them as they floundered in the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herbert then dispatched his 12-man contingent of Royal Marines in a small boat under a Corporal Collins to the Nicosian to root out the surviving Germans. As they departed the Baralong, Herbert publicly ordered them to, \u201cTake no prisoners.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-it-gets-worse-for-the-germans\">It Gets Worse For The Germans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Germans had taken refuge in the freighter\u2019s engine room. Collins and his Marines cut them down to a man. Some reports had Kapitan Wegener having hidden in a bathroom. The Royal Marines supposedly broke down the door with their rifle butts, and the German officer dove into the water. Collins then purportedly took careful aim with his revolver and shot the German U-boat skipper through the head.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/alton-w-knappenberger-a-bunch-of-germans-walk-into-a-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-baralong-incident-decidedly-ungentlemanly-warfare\" title=\"The Baralong Incident: Decidedly Ungentlemanly Warfare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alton W. Knappenberger: So, A Bunch of Germans Walk Into a BAR\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.02\u202fPM-1024x622.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.02\u202fPM-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.02\u202fPM-400x243.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.02\u202fPM-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.02\u202fPM-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.02\u202fPM.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Germans used the Baralong incident for their own propaganda purposes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the aftermath of the massacre, the British Admiralty ordered the report suppressed. However, there had been Americans among the Nicosian\u2019s survivors in the lifeboats, and they spoke with newspaper reporters upon their return home. The sordid details of the exchange soon circled the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not unexpectedly, the Germans had a veritable conniption, threatening a variety of unspecified reprisals. However, the two nations were already at war. This seminal event did, however, drive the German Navy to abandon the accepted Prize Rules wherein some modicum of restraint was shown toward target crews and embrace unrestricted submarine warfare. Countless more subsequently perished as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-damage-control-on-the-baralong\">Damage Control On the Baralong<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.18\u202fPM-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-199695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.18\u202fPM-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.18\u202fPM-400x279.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.18\u202fPM-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.18\u202fPM-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-10-at-10.11.18\u202fPM.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The HMS Baralong was a fairly nondescript-looking tub at a glance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To help protect the Baralong and her crew from the Germans should she ever be captured, the ship was renamed HMS Wyandra. The name Baralong was deleted from the Lloyd\u2019s Register, and the vessel was assigned new duties in the Mediterranean. Regardless of their having committed unfettered murder, the crew of the Baralong along with her Captain were awarded a 185-pound bounty for having sunk the German U-Boat U-27.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been said that, in war, the victors write the history. This is undoubtedly true. LCDR Herbert and his crew certainly committed a war crime in machinegunning the helpless survivors of U-27 after crippling their vessel. However, the Germans were sinking ocean liners filled with civilians at the time. 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